Achieve Counseling & Wellness

Vision

All people will have access to life enriching counseling, education, and wellness services to help achieve their full potential, improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and improve quality of life for all.

Helping Strengthen Arizona's Communities

Mental Health America ranked Arizona 50th in the nation for access to behavioral and mental healthcare, despite excelling at providing services to those with severe mental illness or with zero to low income who qualify for Medicaid, known as AHCCCS in Arizona (Stuart, 2015). In 2019, the gross income limit for an individual to qualify for AHCCCS was $16,620 a year, leaving numerous hard working individuals and families uninsured or underinsured (AHCCCS, 2019). In a 2018 health insurance survey, 28% of U.S. adults with employer-sponsored health insurance and 42% who bought their own plans through marketplaces were underinsured (Commonweath Fund, 2019).

The low to mid middle-income population suffers when it comes to accessing behavioral and mental health counseling and therapy for two reasons: (1) lack of available services and (2) cost of services are a barrier (Stuart, 2015). In a survey of working adults with employer-sponsored commercial health insurance, 50% of the respondents said costs had forced them or a close family member to delay a doctor’s appointment, not fill a prescription, or postpone some other medical care (Levey, 2019).

Achieve Counseling & Wellness is dedicated to providing accessible and affordable services to the middle-class population. In support of our mission and vision, we have made a commitment to accept most major employer-sponsored and commercial health insurances, price self pay fees at competitive rates, and use profits from self pay fees to offer sliding scale counseling and therapy services to the low to mid middle-income population. People who join the Achieve Community through self pay services can feel good knowing that the rates they would normally pay will go to help other hard working low to mid middle-income individuals and families access affordable counseling and therapy services.